On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> As for updating the size recommendations, the text at
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server has been
>>> beaten into the status quo by a number of people. Here's what might make
>>> sense from there to insert into the docs, removing the bits referring to
>>> older versions, rewriting a bit for manual tone, and noting the checkpoint
>>> issues:
>
>> This is good text. I will incorporate it with slight copy editing if
>> no one objects.
>
> Looks good to me too, although perhaps more than the single use of
> "dedicated" is needed to remind people that these numbers are only
> appropriate if the machine is not doing anything else than running
> (one instance of) Postgres. Should we expend a whole sentence
> on that?
IMHO that would be overkill, but that's just MHO. Other opinions?
...Robert
